9 Questions
Did Sören Uhle receive strange phone calls from reporters regarding false news and propaganda about the Chemnitz riots?
True
Did the YouTube recommendations for Chemnitz videos lead users back to mainstream news coverage?
False
Did the YouTube algorithm tend to stay within extremist content once the user entered that network?
True
Who organized the mobs that swarmed Chemnitz in August 2018?
Neo-Nazis
What did Ray Serrato do to investigate the spread of false information on YouTube about the Chemnitz riots?
He watched a dozen recent videos on Chemnitz
What did YouTube's recommendations for Chemnitz videos tend to cluster around?
Conspiracy or far-right videos
What techniques did Ray Serrato use to investigate the spread of false information on YouTube about the Chemnitz riots?
He scraped YouTube's recommendations for what to watch next on a dozen recent videos on Chemnitz, and did the same for those videos, revealing a network of about 650 videos.
How many steps would it take, on average, for a YouTube viewer who pulled up a Chemnitz news clip to find themselves watching far-right propaganda, according to Serrato?
Only two.
What did YouTube's recommendations for Chemnitz videos tend to cluster tightly around, according to Serrato's investigation?
Conspiracy or far-right videos.
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